12-Year-Old Hangs Himself After Bout With #Bullying

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12-Year-Old Hangs Himself After Bout With #Bullying

By Gus

US News • June 2012 • Views: 5,048

12-Year-Old Hangs Himself After Bout With Bullying

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NEW YORK CITY - A 12-year-old boy harassed by school bullies about his intelligence, his height and his deceased father hanged himself in the New York City apartment he shared with his mother Tuesday night according to relatives and those who knew him.

“I want to remember him as a happy kid,” his anguished sister said on Thursday.

Joel Morales transferred from P.S. 102 to P.S. 57 after enduring incessant taunting for months, but the bullying persisted at his new school, the fifth-grader’s family said.

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4 comments

dragonfire1981 Sun, Jun 3, 2012 5:19:45am

This makes my heartbreak so much.

I could have been this kid. At that age, I was close to the same height he was (I'm only 5'2 now) and was taunted mercilessly as well. It wouldn't have taken much more to push me over the edge.

What I don't get is: Why?

Why harass a kid just because he's small? Is it because they are afraid of fighting someone their own size?

I wish I could tell all these kids: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU.

It just wrecks a kids self esteem and potential future so much to go through something like this.

Vicious Babushka Sun, Jun 3, 2012 5:47:37am

I am very short and was the target of bullying throughout elementary and junior high (what they used to call middle school back in the day). I was also targeted for bullying because I had [deleted word] hair.

The thing that disturbed me the most was that the teachers DIDN'T GIVE A FUCK. "Oh, if they laugh at you, just laugh with them!" was the most "useful" piece of advice they gave me on how to respond to the bullying.

The bullying stopped when I went to a "magnet" high school instead of the neighborhood high school the rest of the bullies went to.

sffilk Sun, Jun 3, 2012 7:18:27am

What's worse is that the bullies will never think about what they did to this poor child, or they'll say something like "he deserved it," or they'll deny the bullying.

I was bullied all the way from kindergarten through college. I found one of my junior high school bullies and sent him an e-mail using one of my alternative e-mail addresses castigating him for what he done to me for 3 years (comparing it to the psychological warfare foisted upon POW's in Vietnam) - his response? "Get over it."

HappyWarrior Mon, Jun 4, 2012 7:33:41am

He should have just toughed it out.// Seriously my heart goes out to this kid's family. And what kind of cruel asshole picks on someone for losing a parent. This story and countless others are exactly why the anti-bullying efforts are justified.

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